Doc Watson Merle Watson: Doc and Merle: Guitar: Recorded Performance

Doc Watson was a legendary performer who blended his traditional Appalachian musical roots with bluegrass country gospel and blues to create a unique style and an expansive repertoire. His flatpicking style elevated the acoustic guitar to solo status in bluegrass and country music and whose interpretations of traditional American music profoundly influenced generations of folk and rock guitarists.Doc was born in Deep Gap North Carolina on March 3 1923 into a family already rich in musical tradition. His mother Annie Watson sang traditional secular and religious songs and his father General Watson played the banjo which was Doc's first instrument as well.In 1953 Doc met Jack Williams a local piano player and played rockabilly/swing music for seven years a period and a style that he later revisited in the album Docabilly. But he also continued to play acoustic traditional music with his family and with his banjo playing neighbor Clarence Tom Ashley. In 1960 spurred by the growing folk revival folklorists Ralph Rinzler and Eugene Earle came south to record Ashley and heard Doc Watson in the process. These sessions resulted in Doc's first recordings Old-Time Music at Clarence Ashley's.In 1961 the Friends of Old-Time Music invited Doc Ashley Clint Howard and Fred Price to perform at a now-legendary concert in New York City and one year later Doc gave his first solo performance at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village. From then on he was a full-time professional playing a wide range of concerts clubs colleges and festivals including the Newport Folk Festival and Carnegie Hall.In the late 1960s Doc was joined on the road by his son Merle who provided both musical and emotional companionship; with Merle playing guitar and banjo and serving as partner and driver the father-son team expanded their audience nationwide. Sadly Merle died in 1985 from a tractor accident.A series of over 50 remarkable recordings including collaborations with Flatt & Scruggs Chet Atkins and

De Doc Watson, Merle Travis jusqu'à Jerry Reed, en passant par James Burton... vous découvrirez dans ce DVD toutes les techniques essentielles d'accompagnement et d'improvisation, tant à l'acoustique qu'à l'électrique, utilisables dans les musiques country, bluegrass, country/blues, country/rock, rockabilly... Au programme : les techniques de solo et d'accompagnement dans le style bluegrass/old-time, l'improvisation country/blues traditionnelle, comment créer son 'travis-picking? autour d'une grille (variations et improvisation), le 'picking? Nashville, les torsions de cordes (effet pedal-steel), les gammes d'improvisation et les 'couleurs? country Nashville, les techniques du roll (technique banjo bluegrass adaptée à la guitare), etc. Durée : 90 mn / Guitare

Ce DVD présente Tony dans trois différents paramètres enregistrés au Festival 1992 Merle Watson en jouant une grande variété de musique. Comprend ' Rouge Boy aux cheveux ', ' I Wonder où vous êtes ce soir ' et 'Ombres'. / DVD

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop-This two DVD set is for beginner and intermediate guitarists who want to start fingerpicking. Rev. Gary Davis used to tell his students that playing the guitar was easy. He would say that a piano player has only two hands (theleft keeps an alternating bass while the right plays a melody) but a guitarist has three hands! Our right hand thumb is one hand and plays the bass figures while our index finger is our second hand and plays the melody. Ourthird hand is our left hand which fingers chords. The results produce a full and orchestrated fingerstyle sound with a rhythmic bass played against melodic lines. This is the alternating bass technique which we sometimes jokinglyrefer to as 'bum-chick.' It is the most popular fingerpicking style played and has been used by legendary guitarists. Mississippi John Hurt Rev. Gary Davis Merle Travis Doc Watson Chet Atkins are but a few of the giantsof this style.On these two DVDs we will explore how to master the alternating bass style. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and then played again slowly on a split-screen so that you can carefully see what both hands aredoing. A detailed 60 page tab/music PDF is included. As well you will see footage of some of the great fingerstyle players such as Rev. Gary Davis Lightnin' Hopkins Mance Lipscomb Merle Travis Brownie McGhee ElizabethCotten John Jackson Pink Anderson and Doc Watson.

Cette collection célébration rassemble le meilleur de la musique, des frais de scolarité et des connaissances des deux précédents titres de chênes pour commémorer depuis leur publication initiale de 40 ans ! Transcriptions de point de repère de Happy Traum représentent la musique et l'art de vingt-deux musiciens des montagnes de la Virginie, le Piémont de Caroline du Nord, le pays de mines de charbon du Kentucky, ainsi que des lieux aussi profondes comme en Angleterre, les Bahamas et en Afrique. Chaque chanson est présenté dans la notation et l'onglet, aux côtés des informations biographiques sur l'artiste, ainsi que toute trucs et conseils qui vous aideront à atteignent une performance plus authentique. Le livre commence avec un guide détaillé à la technique fingerpicking, vous donnant tous les frais que vous avez besoin pour s'attaquer à ces inestimables trésors musicaux. / Guitare